Numbers 9:12
in Numbers 9they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes.
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ASV
they shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break a bone thereof: according to all the statute of the passover they shall keep it.
KJV
They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.
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This verse in Numbers 9
Commentary
6 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
According to all the ordinances - i. e. those relating to the Passover lamb, not those concerning the feast, for the Little Passover lasted, according to the Jews, only one day; nor was it held to be needful that at it leaven should be put away out of the houses.
This site's exposition
The fourteenth day of the second month
on Numbers 9:11-12
The month moves and the day of the month holds, because the ordinance marks the day Israel came out. Nothing else is relaxed, unleavened bread and bitter herbs included, and the rule that no bone of it be broken stands, which Exodus 12:46 gave first and which John 19:36 applies to the body of Christ at the cross. Hezekiah kept a national passover in the second month on the ground of this provision, recorded at 2 Chronicles 30:2-3. Barnes notes that the later Jewish writers called this keeping the little passover.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
They shall leave none of it unto the morning,....
They must not think that, because the time was dispensed with, any part of the solemnity of it might be abated; when we cannot do as we would we must do the utmost we can in the service of God.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Charles Spurgeon1834–1892
The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2407: “Feeding on a Whole Christ” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) · Written before 1892.
IN great tenderness God permitted the Passover to be kept a second time, that those who had unavoidably been defiled at the first observance might not be shut out from the memorable and symbolical rite. But, although He altered the date of the Passover, He never changed the form of it—the Paschal feast was to be the same whenever it was celebrated and by whomever it was observed. Whether one family, or an Israelite who happened to be a stranger and visitor in the house, whoever it might be—kept the Passover—the same regulations were to be carefully followed.
A commentator
Charles Spurgeon1834–1892
The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2407: “Feeding on a Whole Christ” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) · Written before 1892.
proposed
IN great tenderness God permitted the Passover to be kept a second time, that those who had unavoidably been defiled at the first observance might not be shut out from the memorable and symbolical rite. But, although He altered the date of the Passover, He never changed the form of it—the Paschal feast was to be the same whenever it was celebrated and by whomever it was observed. Whether one family, or an Israelite who happened to be a stranger and visitor in the house, whoever it might be—kept the Passover—the same regulations were to be carefully followed. From this I gather, learning a lesson from the type, that, whatever may be the experiences through which we come to salvation, Christ is always the same and we must partake of Him in the same way. You who have been so defiled that you have, as it were, to eat of the second Passover, even at the 11th hour, long after others have been feeding on Christ—still there is the same Christ for you as there is for those who come at the right time—who seek the Lord early, and find Him while yet the dew of their youth is upon them. There is none but Jesus for each one of us! There is no way for this man, peculiar to himself because of his righteous life, and no way for that person, peculiar to himself because of his ungodliness—but for the most moral and the most immoral there is the same Savior to be received by the same precious faith! Only by the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus are we delivered from wrath and only by feeding upon Christ can our spiritual life be sustained. There are not two gospels, but only one Gospel. There are not two Christ's, but only one Christ! There are not two roads to Heaven but only one road to Heaven.
How the passage was read
On Numbers 9:1-14On Numbers 9:1-14
The make-up Passover
This passage creates something rare in the Law: a second chance at a feast. Anyone unclean or far away at Passover could keep it exactly one month later, on the 14th of the second month. Jewish tradition calls it Pesach Sheni, “Second Passover,” and it is still marked lightly today (some eat a piece of matzah on the day). Israel's kings used the provision at national scale: Hezekiah's great Passover was held in the second month on exactly this ground (2 Chronicles 30).
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Sources: Mishnah Pesachim 9:1 (who keeps the Second Passover) · 2 Chronicles 30 (the provision used nationally)
The words behind it
14 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לֹֽא־ | lo'- | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| יַשְׁאִ֤ירוּ | yashiru | they will leave over | H7604 → | 133 times |
| מִמֶּ֙נּוּ֙ | mimenu | any of it | H4480 → | 1188 times |
| עַד־ | ʾad- | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| בֹּ֔קֶר | boker | morning | H1242 → | 214 times |
| וְעֶ֖צֶם | veetzem | and a bone | H6106 → | 126 times |
| לֹ֣א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| יִשְׁבְּרוּ־ | yishberu- | they will break | H7665 → | |
| ב֑וֹ | vo | in <the> it | ||
| כְּכָל־ | kekhol- | according to every | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| חֻקַּ֥ת | chukat | <the> statute of | H2708 → | 104 times |
| הַפֶּ֖סַח | hapesach | the passover | H6453 → | 49 times |
| יַעֲשׂ֥וּ | yaasu | they will observe | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| אֹתֽוֹ׃ | ʾoto | <obj.> it | H853 → | 10935 times |
לֹֽא־not
lo'-H3808 →5168 times
יַשְׁאִ֤ירוּthey will leave over
yashiruH7604 →133 times
מִמֶּ֙נּוּ֙any of it
mimenuH4480 →1188 times
עַד־until
ʾad-H5704 →1261 times
בֹּ֔קֶרmorning
bokerH1242 →214 times
וְעֶ֖צֶםand a bone
veetzemH6106 →126 times
לֹ֣אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
יִשְׁבְּרוּ־they will break
yishberu-H7665 →
ב֑וֹin <the> it
vo
כְּכָל־according to every
kekhol-H3605 →5413 times
חֻקַּ֥ת<the> statute of
chukatH2708 →104 times
הַפֶּ֖סַחthe passover
hapesachH6453 →49 times
יַעֲשׂ֥וּthey will observe
yaasuH6213 →2628 times
אֹתֽוֹ׃<obj.> it
ʾotoH853 →10935 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
John 19:36Now these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of His bones will be broken.”
it leads to
- Psalms 34:20
He protects all his bones; not one of them will be broken.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Exodus 12:46
It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of the bones.
- Psalms 22:14
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
- Psalms 34:20
Through
Exodus 12:46It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of the bones.
it leads to
- John 19:36
Now these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of His bones will be broken.”
- John 19:36
Through
Exodus 12:43And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.
it leads to
- Exodus 12:48
If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be…
- Numbers 9:14
If a foreigner dwelling among you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute…
- Exodus 12:48
Through
Exodus 12:10Do not leave any of it until morning; before the morning you must burn up any part that is left over.
it leads to
- Exodus 23:18
You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.
- Exodus 34:25
Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.
- Exodus 23:18
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About Numbers
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2407: “Feeding on a Whole Christ” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.